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Top Music Podcasts: 2021

Top Music Podcasts: 2021

With Covid-19 continuing to enforce bans on large public gatherings and stay-at-home orders, many are looking for ways to keep themselves entertained while remaining inside. Technology has begun to become the primary component of various industries, especially music...

Best Music Films

Best Music Films

Film can teach us a lot about various topics. Some films highlight historical events, some films take us deeper inside the lives of people who have inspired us, and some films just make us smile, laugh, and cry. If you are a music lover, there are many movies out...

Common Mistakes When Practicing Music

Common Mistakes When Practicing Music

Music can be a very complicated but rewarding craft. In order to perfect an art, you must practice as much as possible. Even when practicing, there are inevitable mistakes you want to avoid as they will mess up your foundation for the future. Let’s take a look at...

How To Get Your Music On Streaming Platforms

How To Get Your Music On Streaming Platforms

It used to be that if you were an unsigned musician trying to gain a following, you would record and burn your own CDs and give them out at live shows. While there is still certainly nothing stopping you from doing this now, the easiest way to listen to music these...

5 Tips to Creating a Studio at Home

5 Tips to Creating a Studio at Home

If you have creativity, determination, and a home computer, you have the first few things you’ll need to launch your music career. However, setting up an in-home recording studio will require a few more pieces of hardware. This guide goes over those basics, so you can get your studio up and running.

Recording Your Own Music: Understanding the Basics

Recording Your Own Music: Understanding the Basics

For many musicians, technological advances in music software development have created a veritable golden age of home recording. Access to quality recording materials has never been more widespread. There is an abundance of tutorials online via sites like YouTube has made the process of creating professional-sounding recordings into a straightforward and easy process for musicians at all levels of their careers.

4 Great Ways to Learn a New Instrument (and Enjoy the Process)

4 Great Ways to Learn a New Instrument (and Enjoy the Process)

As life-enriching activities go, it is challenging to beat the process of learning a new instrument. Learning to play a new instrument helps build good personal qualities such as patience, problem-solving skills, and an appreciation of the arts. Even if it shouldn’t be, however, the prospect of learning a new instrument can also feel like an intimidating idea.

What to Look for in a Guitar Instructor

What to Look for in a Guitar Instructor

Creativity is needed when playing the guitar, but formal training might also be necessary when reaching the skill level you dream of. The popularity of the guitar makes it central to many global genres that you can learn. If you have a passion for thoroughly learning the guitar, then becoming a student will enable you to play it at your own creative will.